AtDTDA: (8) 229 Auxetophone

[Dave Monroe]

On 5/9/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> But above all, I'm thinking of a device intending to capture some part of the
> soul ...

Cf., e.g. ...

>From Charles Grivel, "The Phonograph's Horned Mouth" Wireless
Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde, ed. Douglas Kahn and
Gregory Whitehead (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), pp. 31-61 ...

"... this machine bears a paradox: it identifies a voice, fixes the
deceased (or mortal) person, registers the dead and thus perpetuates
his living testimony, but also achieves his automatic reproduction in
abstentia: my self would live without me–horror of horrors!"

http://www.hauntedink.com/ghost/ch1.html

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=3548&ttype=2

And from Evan Eisenberg, The Recording Angel: Music, Records and
Culture from Aristotle to Zappa (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987), Ch. 4,
"Ceremonies of a solitary," pp. 35-56 ...

"In primitive magic the spirits whose powers are enlisted are nature
spirits or the spirits of the dead. There is an echo of this in
phonographic magic, lending it a certain eerieness.  Record listening
is a seance in which we get to choose our ghosts.  The voices we hear
come from another world .... The performer becomes (in the
etymological sense) occult." (p. 46)

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300099045

And recall as well, e.g., ...

http://www.danbbs.dk/~erikoest/nipper.htm